SATARCHE

One of the most popular ways in the Georgian language to make a construction according to the model "where <root> is" or "place of <root>", is the following: sa + <root> + е Rudenko's Georgian grammar textbook says the following about this:

The method is simple and intuitive. You can form words independently, without checking the dictionary each time:

"საძროხე" – სა + ძროხ + ე – "sadzrokhe", from "dzrokhe" ("cow") - "cowshed"; “საღორე” – სა + ღორ + ე – “sagore”, from “gori” (“pig”) – “pig sty”; “საწხენე” – სა + წხენ + ე – “satskhene”, from “tskheni” (“horse”) – “stable”; “საღვინე” – სა + ღვინ + ე – “sagvine”, from “gvino” (“wine”) – “wine cup”; “სათაფლე” – სა + თაფლ + ე – “sataple”, from “tapli” (“honey”) – “apiary”; “სამარილე” – სა + მარილ + ე – “samarile”, from “marili” (“salt”) – “salt cellar”; “სათევზე” – სა + თევზ + ე – “satevze”, from “tevzi” (“fish”) – “fish tank”

As you can see, the method is highly toponymic. In fact, a huge number of toponyms were created in this way: Satskhene, Sabue, Sataple, Saniore (villages in Kakheti), Saboloke (a village in Samachablo) and many others. Now, looking at the map of Ptolemy's Ancient Ukraine, it is easy to find in Crimea a 100% Kartvelian toponym Satarche.

By breaking it down according to the rules of Kartvelian morphology into morphemes "Sa + tarch + e", we get "Tarch" as the root, and the whole word will be translated as "place of Tarch". Who "Tarch" is, is no secret. This is an Anatolian deity with the main sanctuary in Turkish Bogazkoy. In the ancient Ukrainian pantheon, Tarch was most often identified with Dazhdbog or Khors. Slavic mythology mentions him as Tarch Perunovich, Tarch Tarchovich, or even Tsar Gorokh. Thus, we have the right to interpret "Satarche" as "a place of worship of Tarch" or "the sanctuary of Tarch". It is difficult to say where exactly Satarche was located. It makes sense to associate it with the village of Khmeleve, which previously bore the Crimean Tatar name Sadyr, which is quite similar to Satarkh. To summarize, we can say that the ancient Georgoi, placed in Crimea by Strabo, had a city there, named in strict accordance with the rules of Georgian morphology. By the way, according to myths, Tarch-Dazhdbog was chained to a rock, which was located in the Caucasus: "...Then Dazhdbog decided to help people... But in the fight with the koshcheis he weakened and was chained by them with magical chains to the Eagle Rocks in the Caucasus Mountains (Sochi, Matsesta region)...". It is interesting that the Crimeans, who should know their history better than anyone else, ask fair questions: "...The ancient Greeks did not immediately master Tarkhankut... Why? What was in the way? The local population? And who lived here then?...". "...And where are the traces of the indigenous population that lived in Crimea before the arrival of the Greeks and Scythians? After all, it was much more numerous than the newcomers!...". "...It was a granary that supplied bread not only to the Chersonesites, but also to Greece...". "... Even according to the most inflated estimates, the actual Greek population living here in fortified areas was too small to hold in their hands the entire enormous economy of the Chersonesites!...". "... Who did this work?...". "... They could not have been the Scythians, who were at enmity with the Greeks, nor the Taurians, who lived in the Crimean mountains - even greater enemies of the Greeks...". "... Thus arose the problem of the Satarchs...". "... Now it remained to find their "elusive" settlements...". "... The excavations of the first estate did not dispel, but only increased the bewilderment...". "... And yet that archaeologist could claim that the house was neither built nor lived in by the Greeks. But not by the Scythians either!...". The only thing that Crimeans don’t know is that “Satarche” is the name of a place, not a nation.